getting started

[johnthan]

alright guys and gals

im wanting to get into competing in drag racing, love the buzz but want a competive edge to it haha

how do i go about this. i dont really have money to have an insane road car. i would like to race production cars, just tuned etc pref. i have been maybe looking at sportsman et. but unsure, anyone able to give me some advice please. i will be doing more rwyb this year and next year, but hope to compete next year is poss.

cheers

[anonymous-user]

Sounds like you're on the right track already mate to be honest. Sportsman ET is the perfect place to dip your toe in the water. First port of call I'd say would be to join the Santa Pod Racer's Club (www.eurodragster.com/sprc from memory) and you'll get a rule book through that which will explain all the various classes and categories, plus it's the first step to getting your competition license.

[johnthan]

cheers for reply.

is there any big diffrence between racing at sata pod, shakespere or york as york is alot closer to me, being from manchester.

what would be the progression upwards from this, as this is bracket racing and i suppose in end i would want to come out of this yeah?

[anonymous-user]

York is fine for the level that you intend to race at, although Sportsman ET and the rest of the National Championship categories don't compete there. There are numerous bracket races that are held there throughout the year though.

Santa Pod has by far the best racing surface, nicest pit area and the best organisation of the three. Saying that though, Shakespeare County Raceway hold Sportsman ET rounds and is a very relaxed place to compete.

The logical progression from Sportsman ET would be to go to Pro ET (dial your own index bracket racing) or Super Street (10.90 index).

[johnthan]

shakespere isnt far either
bout 2 hours ish

will have aloo.

do the sportsman et have a website?

[Eurodragster.com]

Go to www.eurodragster.com/sprc and click on the Starting Racing link.

There is a lot of good advice there about getting started and the licencing stuff and race procedures also applies to Shakespeare County or York of course, it's just different Clubs which run the races at those tracks.

[johnthan]

cheers for that

why isnt york mentioned at all, is it not recognised by msa or somat, only ever SCR and POD that are emtnioned

[Eurodragster.com]

The UK National Championships run at SPR and SCR but not at York. That's a large part of it.

[johnthan]

i see.

do you know of any sportsman website, found one for the pro et, the cars look insane ont he pics haha. would like to find one fir the sportsman et if poss

[Smiggs454]

When its up and running this'll be the class website: http://www.sportsman-et.co.uk/ 

[johnthan]

excellent thankyou